A PELANDOK TALE. 83 



" Try then, make your effort. If you are really the great 

 warrior of the woods, you will get me now. But I think that 

 I will turn you out." 



When the tiger heard that, he sprang on the pelandok, 

 but the pelandok ran off close to the edge of the bank. The 

 tiger chased him. Then he sprang back inland. Now when 

 the crocodiles heard the uproar on the bank made by the tiger 

 chasing the pelandok, they all gathered together and watched 

 the edge of the water. The tiger. made another spring at the 

 pelandok but did not get him, for the pelandok jumped off to 

 the edge of the bank. The pelandok twisted and turned, bound- 

 ing ten feet at a time. Now at one part of the bank there was 

 a sandy beach. The pelandok sprang to the edge of the beach 

 and dipped his foot in the water, and then sprang back to the 

 land. The tiger followed him to the water's edge but over- 

 jumped himself and sprang about twelve feet into the water. 

 Then the crocodiles seized him thinking that he was the 

 pelandok. The tiger struggled in his pain. When the cro- 

 codiles had hold of him they tore him. 



The tiger said, " Friends, don't tear me." 



The crocodiles said, " We don't care ; the promise that we 

 made before was that whatever came into the water was our 

 meat." 



When the tiger heard that he burst out crying and at 

 last died. The pelandok rejoiced and said, " Tear him Si 

 Eangkak, eat him. He is bigger than I. What is the 

 use of a thing like me ? Y©u would hardly be able to 

 taste me." 



This is the fealty of the crocodile. Don't have anything 

 to do with it. 



After escaping from this peril the pelandok went on his 

 way towards the garden where King Solomon lived. He 

 passed close to one house in a garden where he heard some 

 men quarrelling about an axe. One man had borrowed an 

 axe from another for a long time for over a year, and had not 

 returned it. When the owner wanted it the man who had 

 borrowed it said that it had been eaten by weevils. So the 

 two men had gone to law before the king. When they got 



R. A.Soc, No. 46, 1906. 



